flat ascii

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

flat ASCII

   <text> (Or "plain ASCII") Said of a text file that contains
   only 7-bit {ASCII} characters and uses only ASCII-standard
   {control characters} (that is, has no embedded codes specific
   to a particular text formatter {markup} language, or output
   device, and no {meta}-characters).

   Compare {flat file}.

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   (1996-01-26)